title: Gender differences in affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders. A review.
abstract: The authors review the literature on sex differences in four DSM-III diagnoses: schizophrenia, schizoaffective psychoses, unipolar and bipolar affective disorders. The findings indicate that (1) gender differences occur most frequently in schizophrenic patients: schizophrenic women exhibit a less deteriorated course of illness; (2) sex differences in affective disordered patients support the unipolar-bipolar subtype distinction; and (3) sex differences are less compelling but also less studied in schizoaffective disorder. Theories attempting to explain sex differences in schizophrenia are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Chestnut Lodge Research Institute, Rockville, MD 20850.
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Bardenstein
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: McGlashan
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012737:Sex Factors